126 SCIUROPTERUS. HAPLODONTIA. 



a. SciuToptcriis volans queTcrii Bangs. 



Sciuropterns volans querceti Bangs, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., x, 1896, 

 p. 166. Elliot, Syn. N. Am. Mamm., F. C. M. Pub., 11, 1901, 

 p. 109. Zool. Ser. 

 Florida Flying Squirrel. 



Type locality. Citronelle, Citrus County, Florida. 



Geogr. Distr. Southern Georgia and Florida, west to Louisiana? 



b. ScUiropieriis volans goldinani Nelson. 



Bciuroptertis volans goldmani Nelson, Proc. Biol. Soc. WaSh., xvii, 

 1904, p. 148. 

 Mexican Flying Squirrel. 



Type locality. Twenty miles southeast of Teopisca, State of Chi- 

 apas, Mexico. 



Geogr. Distr. Highlands of the State of Chiapas, Mexico, and 

 Guatemala. 



Genl. Char. Like S. v. querceti; top of nose white ; membrane be- 

 neath ochraceous buff. 



Color. Upper parts reddish brown; top and side of nose, lower 

 part of cheeks and sides of neck to back of ears whitish ; between eye 

 and ear dusky, lower part of cheeks and sides of head below ears dingy 

 grayish brown ; supraloral spot whitish ; underside of neck and body 

 white tinted with buff ; upper surface of membrane blackish slate color, 

 under surface deep ochraceous buff; tail above cinnamon brown, be- 

 neath dingy buff ; top of fore feet dingy whitish ; top of hind feet dusky, 

 toes dingy white. 



Measurements. Total length, 237; tail vertebrae, 112; hind foot, 

 30. Skull: Hensel, 28; interorbital width, 7.5; zygomatic width, 22; 

 greatest width of braincase, 17.5; length of nasals, 10.2; width of 

 rostrum, 6; depth of rostrum, 7. 



Family IL Haplodontidse. Sewellels. 

 Genus 56. Haplodontia. 



Aplodontia {sic) Rich., Zool. Journ., iv, 1829, p. 334. Type Aplo- 

 dontia! leporina Richardson =Anisonyx rufa Rafinesque. 

 Anisonyx Rafin., Am. Month. Mag., 11, 181 7, p. 45. (Part.) 



245. Haplodontia rufa (Rafinesque). 



Anisonyx rufa Rafin., Am. Month. Mag., 11, 181 7, p. 45. 

 Aplodontia! leporina Rich., Faun. Bor. Amer., Mamm., i, 1829, 

 p. 211, pi. 18 C. 



